Maleficium: Vampires, Magic & More!
by Mitlit
Maleficium: Vampires, Magic & More! adds magic, vampires and a set of witchcraft items to Forge and NeoForge worlds, with the vampire side covering blood, night and transformation.
What it does
Players who turn into a vampire feed on blood to survive. Blood is drawn from mobs, and the amount gained depends on each mob's health, with villagers counted as the most nutritious source. Failing to feed leads to death or desiccation. Vampires can also turn villagers into vampires, and feeding blood to other players turns them too, granting a temporary regeneration boost.
The mod gives vampires a choice of abilities to build toward. A vampire can compel mobs to obey, make mobs stand still or attack each other, move at high speed while leaving a black trail, and close its eyes to sense nearby mobs and players through smell and hearing. Using these abilities costs some blood or hunger. Villagers offer lower trade prices to vampires, and extra slots add modded items such as daylight rings. Two grimoires explain the magic: the witchcraft grimoire, crafted from a book and glowstone dust, covers general magic in Maleficium, and the vampirism grimoire, crafted from a book and rotten flesh, covers becoming and killing vampires.
The mod is client and server, so the server and every player need it. It is published for Forge and NeoForge, for Minecraft 1.20.1, and is released under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. Its source code and issue tracker are public.
Key features
Blood feeding
Blood is taken from mobs in amounts based on their health, with villagers giving the most.
Vampire abilities
A vampire can compel mobs, control their behavior, move at high speed and sense nearby creatures.
Turning villagers
Vampires can convert villagers, and feeding blood to players turns them into vampires too.
Grimoires
The witchcraft and vampirism grimoires are obtained by crafting and describe the mod's items and spells.
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 2
Optional 3
How it compares
Call of the Night is a Forge mod for 1.20.1 with the same client and server environment, under All rights reserved, so it is not open source. Vampirism Iron's Spells Compatibility is open source under the MIT License, covers 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 on Forge and NeoForge, and runs on client and server. Vampirism is open source under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only, spans 1.12.2 – 26.1.2 on Forge and NeoForge, and also runs on client and server.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maleficium: Vampires, Magic & More! | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-13 |
| Call of the Night | Forge | 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2024-08-24 |
| Vampirism Iron's Spells Compatibility | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2026-07-28 |
| Vampirism | Forge and NeoForge | 1.12.2 – 26.1.2 | Client and server | 2026-09-30 |
Questions
Does Maleficium need Patchouli or TerraBlender?
Must the server run Maleficium?
Does Maleficium work with Curios API?
In the catalog
Maleficium: Vampires, Magic & More! is one of 7,216 Magic mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,927 Magic mods for Forge. 34,764 mods support Minecraft 1.20.1.
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What the author says
# Maleficium: Vampires, Magic & More! Welcome to Maleficium! This mod adds magic and vampires into Minecraft, allowing players to hone their magical abilities or become a creature of the night. The choice is yours! Witchcraft has been added to the mod and the grimoires, etc but I haven't written about it here yet. I…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/maleficium
- Owner
- Mitlit
- Published
- 2025-04-21
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-13
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15